Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

TAYLOR & MAURY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Columbia.

STEREOTYPED BY

THOMAS B SMITH,

216 William St., N. Y.

CONTENTS TO VOL. VIII.

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BOOK III-PART III.

REPLIES TO PUBLIC ADDRESSES.

To the Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut, 113.

To William Judd, 114.

To the Legislature of Tennessee, 115.

To the Legislature of Massachusetts, 116.

To the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representa-

tives of Massachusetts, 117.

To Messrs. Thomas Ellicot and others, 118.

To Captain John Thomas, 119.

To Governor Smith, 120.

To the Legislature of Vermont, 121.

To the Legislature of New Jersey, 122.

To the Tammany Society of Washington City, 124.

To Messrs. Abner Walker and Bernard Todd, 124.

To the General Assembly of North Carolina, 125.

To the Society of Tammany of New York City, 127.

To the Democratic Republicans of Philadelphia, 128.

To the Legislature, Council, and House of Representatives of the Territory

of New Orleans, 129.

To Governor Langdon, 131.

To Governor Langdon, 132.

To the Speaker of the House of Representatives of South Carolina, 133.

To the Inhabitants of Boston, Newbury port, and Providence, &c., 133.

To a Portion of the Citizens of Boston, 135.

To the Baltimore Baptist Association, 137.

To the Ketocton Baptist Association, 138.

To the Six Baptist Associations represented at Chesterfield, Virginia, 139.

To Taber Finch, 140.

To the Young Republicans of Petersburg and its vicinity, 141.

To the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 142.

To the Electors of the County of Ontario, New York, 143.

To the Citizens of the County and City of Philadelphia, 144.

To the Legislature of Georgia, 145.

To the Methodist Episcopal Church at New London, Connecticut, 147.

To the General Assembly of Virginia, 147.

To the Citizens of Wilmington and its vicinity, 149.

To John Gassaway, 150.

To the Republican Young Men of New London, 151.

To the Republicans of Loudon county, Virginia, 152.

To Governor Tompkins, 153.

To General James Robertson, 154.

To the Republicans of Niagara county, New York, 155.

To Captain Quin Morton, 156.

To the Tammany Society of Washington City, 156.

To the Citizens of Washington City, 157.

To the Republicans of Georgetown, 159.

To the Republican Merchants of Leesburg and its vicinity, 161.

To the Friends of the Administration in Bristol county, Rhode Island, 162.

To the Republican Delegates of Washington county, Pennsylvania, 163.

To the Citizens of Alleghany county, Maryland, 164.

To the Republican Citizens of Washington county, Maryland, 165.

To the President of the Ancient Plymouth Society of New London, 166.

To Governor Wright, 166.

To the Legislature of the State of New York, 166.

To the Republicans of Queen Ann's county, 168.

To the members of the Baptist Church of Buck Mountain in Albemarle, 168.

To Jonathan Low, 169.

To the Tammany Society of Baltimore. 170.

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INDIAN ADDRESSES.

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To Brother John Baptiste de Coigne, 179.

Speeches of John Baptiste de Coigne, Chief of the Wabash and Illinois In-

dians, and other Chiefs, 176.

To the Miamis, Powtewattamies, and Wecanks, 184.

To the Delaware and Shawanee nations, 186.

To Brother Handsome Lake, 187.

To Brothers, the Miamis and Delawares, 189.

To Brothers of the Choctaw nation, 192.

To my children, White-hairs, chiefs and warriors of the Osage nation, 195.

To the Chiefs of the Chickasaw Nation, Minghey, Mataha, and Tisphol-

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ana, 198.

To the Wolf, and people of the Mandar nation, 200.

To the Chiefs of the Osage nation, 203.

To the Chiefs of the Shawanee nation, 205.

To Kitchard Geboway, 208.

To the Chiefs of the Ottawas, Chippewas, Powtewattamies, Wyandots, and

Senecas, of Sandusky, 210.

To the Chief of the Upper Cherokees, 213.

To Colonel Louis Cook and Jacob Francis of the St. Regis Indians, 215.

To the Delaware Chief, Captain Armstrong, 216.

To the Miamis, Powtewattamies, Delawares, and Chippewas, 217.

To Little Turtle, Chief of the Miamis, 218.

To Manchol, the great war chief of the Powtewattamies, 220.

To Beaver, the head warrior of the Delawares, 223.

To Captain Hendrick, the Delawares, Mohiccons, and Munries, 225.

To Kitchard Geboway, 228.

To the Deputies of the Cherokee Upper Towns, 228.

To the Deputies of the Cherokees of the Upper and Lower Towns, 230.